By CHRIS GRYGIEL Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A Latino civil rights organization and others have filed a federal lawsuit that says new political maps in Washington state approved by a bipartisan redistricting panel intentionally dilute Hispanic voters’ influence. The legal action filed Wednesday targets state Legislative District 15 in Yakima, which is majority Latino.
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Continue ReadingBy ADEL OMRAN Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The head of Libya’s national oil company has said that his country will try to keep oil production at 1.2 million barrels a day in 2022, but that the company is dealing with serious budget shortfalls. Libya’s top oil body, along with the rest of the
Continue ReadingBy Elitsa Bizios Click here for updates on this story DEERFIELD BEACH, Florida (WSVN) — A woman was struck and killed by a train in Deerfield Beach. The incident happened along Dixie Highway near Southwest Fourth Street, just before 4 a.m., Wednesday. The deceased body of the victim could be seen covered with a yellow
Continue ReadingBy Mick Krever and Hannah Ryan, CNN A man who pushed a woman in front of an approaching train at a Brussels metro station on Friday January 14 has been detained on suspicion of attempted manslaughter, according to prosecutors. The woman narrowly survived after the driver was able to pull the emergency brake just in
Continue ReadingCNN By Mick Krever and Hannah Ryan, CNN A man who pushed a woman in front of an approaching train at a Brussels metro station on Friday January 14 has been detained on suspicion of attempted manslaughter, according to prosecutors. The woman narrowly survived after the driver was able to pull the emergency brake just
Continue ReadingBy KMOV Staff Click here for updates on this story NORTH COUNTY, Missouri (KMOV) — A McDonald’s employee was hospitalized after being shot by customer in Cool Valley Wednesday afternoon. According to police, a woman pulled into the McDonald’s drive-thru just before 1 p.m. in the 1700 block of South Florissant. While in the lane,
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN Cybercriminals are trying to steal financial information from Americans through the QR codes that restaurants and businesses have increasingly turned to during the coronavirus pandemic, the FBI warned this week. The scammers are using fraudulent QR codes — bar codes that you scan on your phone to launch a website —
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press American forward Tim Weah ended a seven-week layoff and put himself in better position to make the U.S. roster for upcoming World Cup qualifiers, entering in the 68th minute of Lille’s 3-1 win over Lorient in the French league. Weah had not played in a match since Dec. 1. Two days
Continue ReadingALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s president has ordered all schools closed for 10 days because of a surge of COVID-19 infections in the North African country. Algeria has also tightened rules for entering the country through its airports. Algeria reported 1,359 new omicron cases on Wednesday alone. The president has urged health authorities to establish
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The 44th annual Sundance Film Festival is back, and entirely online once more. The festival starts Thursday with nine packed days of high profile documentaries about everyone from Kanye West and Princess Diana to Lucille Ball and Bill Cosby, buzzy first films from knowns and unknowns, virtual gatherings and
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch media report that a man who stood outside the home of a former Dutch foreign minister shouting and waving a burning torch has been sent to prison for six months. Threats aimed at Dutch politicians have increased in recent years amid a polarization that has been fueled by the
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Complaints that a University of Michigan sports doctor was committing sexual assault went back decades, long before a $490 million settlement with victims. But no one stepped forward to ensure that Robert Anderson would be kicked off campus. The many missed opportunities were described in detail last
Continue ReadingBy AYA BATRAWY and MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A United Arab Emirates ambassador says Yemen’s Houthi rebels used cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and drones in an attack on Abu Dhabi this week that killed three people and set off fires at a fuel depot and an international airport. The
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A fourth worker at a federal women’s prison in California has been charged with sexually abusing an inmate. His arrest comes months after the prison’s warden was arrested on similar charges. James Theodore Highhouse was charged Tuesday with sexual abuse of a ward,
Continue ReadingOpinion by Chuck Collins for CNN Business Perspectives The pandemic has shone a spotlight on how inequality kills. As inequalities in income, wealth and access to health care have accelerated, the world’s most economically precarious people have suffered far more than their fair share of death and economic loss. As a new Oxfam report points
Continue ReadingBy AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three former officers who were with Derek Chauvin during the arrest that led to George Floyd’s death face federal trial this week on charges they violated the Black man’s civil rights. J. Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao are broadly accused of willfully depriving Floyd of his
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Fred Parris, the lead singer of the 1950s harmony group the Five Satins and composer of the classic doo-wop ballad “In the Still of the Night,” has died at age 85. Released in 1956, “In the Still of the Night” only reached No. 24 on the Billboard pop charts but became
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Perú señaló este miércoles que el derrame de petróleo en Ventanilla es el “peor desastre ecológico ocurrido en Lima en los últimos tiempos” y ocasionó un “grave perjuicio” a cientos de familias de pescadores. Por medio de una serie de tuits, consideró que Repsol
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A fire broke out late Wednesday morning in the front locomotive of a BNSF Railway freight train south of Bend. Initial reports from the scene indicated all crew were off the train safely and no injuries were reported.
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